The Cop28 climate summit officially entered overtime on Tuesday as the world struggled to reach consensus on its future relationship with fossil fuels.
Monday’s draft text had deleted a sentence calling for the “phase-out” of fossil fuels, backed by more than 100 countries. But recommending a phase-out or down of oil, coal and gas has been strongly opposed by oil-rich nations, including Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The deletion of the phrase caused immediate uproar from a large number of delegations and activists. By late Monday, small island states and many developing countries along with the UK, European Union, the US, Australia, Japan, Canada and Norway had spoken out against it.
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